" But the reality is more down-to-earth.Her mother insists that she drape her father's old raincoat over her shoulders.And Walter drives her in a broken-down jalopy with wobbly wheels hat he borrowed from a friend.Alice is embarrassed and dismayed by its condition: "Gee Whiz, I can't go in...!" She demands hat he park the eye-sore car ("this awful mess") down he street outside the Palmer mansion gates.Davis played opposite co-star Gary Merrill - with whom she had an affair during filming, and soon married (it was her fourth - and last - marriage, that lasted from 1950-1960) after waiting for each other's divorce."The benevolent and kindly King was impressed by he miraculous invention, a sign of the transition from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.After he performance, the pompous performer spoke to her caring maid Anna Roderick (Una O'Connor) about how she didn't need romance with suitor Teddy (David Nivens) whom she found distastefully smoking in her dressing room and very eager to propose.